Quotes about Authenticity
Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.
- Paulo Coelho
Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.
- Paulo Coelho
Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.
- Paulo Coelho
I'm just like that woman really. Or rather, that's what I used to be like: someone pretending to know everything, hidden away in my own silence
- Paulo Coelho
One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty.
- Paulo Coelho
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself!
- Paulo Coelho
The pure force of life are in communication with each other, independently of us, and then we cannot hide who we are.
- Paulo Coelho
I'm tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That's what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.
- Paulo Coelho
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
- CS Lewis
Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.
- Bruce Lee
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
- Pablo Picasso
All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
- Dolly Parton